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The Tony Nominations: Who Got Snubbed This Year?

Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesDaniel Radcliffe, the star of the current Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” was tackled en route to a Tony Award nomination.

Somewhere, Lord Voldemort is surely smiling while “Harry Potter” fans are heartbroken: Daniel Radcliffe leveraged his years as the star of that boy-wizard franchise to play J. Pierrepont Finch in the current Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” and spent months in vocal and dance training to get up to speed for the role. Yet he couldn’t conjure up enough magic to secure a Tony nomination on Tuesday for a performance that excited many theatergoers and critics, making him one of the most glaring snubs of the morning. Did Tony nominators agree with Ben Brantley, who wrote in The New York Times that Mr. Radcliffe “is clearly not to the musical manner born.” Or was Mr. Radcliffe simply the victim of an evil spell cast by Severus Snape? We may never know.

Meanwhile, we’ll understand this morning if Aaron Tveit wants to turn to a life of crime: his performance as the con-artist pilot-doctor-lawyer Frank Abagnale Jr. in the musical version of “Catch Me If You Can” did not earn him a Tony nomination, after he was previously passed over for a nomination for “Next to Normal.” (His “Catch Me” co-star Norbert Leo Butz, who played the tenacious F.B.I. agent Carl Hanratty, was nominated, though Tom Wopat, who played his ne’er-do-well father, was stopped at the gate.)

By many accounts Tate Donovan was good in “Good People,” but not good enough to grab a Tony nomination for his performance in that David Lindsay-Abaire play; nor was Benjamin Walker, who played a very unhistorical version of the seventh American president in “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.” And the Broadway veteran Cherry Jones will not have another nomination to add to her résumé, despite her well-received turn as a madam in “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”

Among the less curiouser and curiouser shutouts: “Wonderland,” the poorly reviewed musical about an adult Alice’s adventures through the looking glass, received no nominations at all, though it was expected to receive few if any.

Who did you hope to see make the cut this year but was cruelly left off the Tonys list? And who was justifiably snubbed? Post a comment below and let us know.